Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce

James Joyce's iconoclastic epic Ulysses (1922) is by no means an unexpected end to a history of the Irish Catholic novel, admits Nolan (English, National U. of Ireland-Maynooth), but she takes a relatively unfamiliar route from the origin of the genre during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s. She concentrates on key moments in the evolution of the peculiar sub-genre, the Irish national novel. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)